Futures Group is seeking a Senior Programmer for a USAID-funded Strategic Information contract supporting the Government of Haiti. The Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national systems and strategic information strategy; improving information flow and existing systems to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate systems including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems.
The Senior Programmer will have technical responsibility for assessing, evaluating, enhancing and developing software applications and providing training to support electronic patient management monitoring software systems and subsystems that include processes for installation, interoperability and integration coding of electronic health systems, hospital subsystems inclusive of patient, laboratory, and pharmacy. S/he will possess very strong communication skills and competencies in programming and developing programming solutions working in a team environment. This position will work closely with members of the existing project and software development team and will interact with local partner staff, Haiti ministries of health and international technical staff. S/he will provide stakeholder and facility level training and support in all areas of software evaluation, coding, application development, database development as needed.

Assessment and review of existing systems and gathering of requirements
Produce IT reports and documents including those associated with the software development life cycle
Enhancement of various software and systems to meet specific functionality for use including reporting, form building, configurations and specific adjustments and revisions
Setup of systems and stakeholder training at regional and national levels. Duties in this regard include install and configuration of software, computers and networks
Establishing linkages with other systems including the District Health Information System (DHIS)
Development of queries and reports for various HMIS systems
Software testing for installation and also for version enhancements
Support the development of other solutions as requested
Train stakeholders in system use
TECHNICAL SKILLS

Five to ten years of hands on experience in developing software applications and leading software projects and staff.
Experience in Haiti health information systems preferred
Experience in working with the Ministry of Health preferred
Minimum three years hands-on experience with transact SQL, CSS, XML, .Net (C#, ASP), JavaScript required
Experienced in developing both the Front and Back End applications using Visual Studio required
Knowledge of transactional databases (MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite) and database programming including stored procedures, triggers and functions required
Experience in Source Code Management systems (SourceSafe) highly preferred
Training experience highly preferred
Ability to read, test and debug C#, JavaScript software coding required
Proficient in .Net with solid object oriented modeling skills, UML, Use Cases, and EA
Experience with Stored Procedure Programming, Database Analysis, Data Conversions, Data Mapping
Experience in Android development, mobile programming, HTML5 (Desired)
JDK (Java development toolkit), Android SDK (includes emulator), Eclipse for Java developers, ADT (Android Development Toolkit) plugin for Eclipse desired but not required
Technical and user documentation skills required.

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (Programming)
Experience working in Health domain preferred but not required
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate in positive working relationships with other team members and partners
Ability to work as part of software team environment highly important
Demonstrated ability to make online presentations and communications of technical material either written or oral, in a clear and concise manner to non-technical partners
Project management experience desired but not required
Must be available for domestic and international travel up to 40% of the time
Haitian nationals strongly encouraged to apply.